Word: caruso
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...artists Mme Savage came to be loved and respected, to be called "Maman" and "Mother." Farrar gave her a wig, Nellie Melba jewels, Sibyl Sanderson a fan-all of which used to figure in Maman Savage's garb when she appeared as an aristocratic Parisian in Andrea Chenier. Caruso gave her an opal ring, a gold medal of himself which he had struck off for friends...
...Metropolitan pays its Claque nothing but the singers may buy special service. Caruso rarely sang without a Claque. Gigli had his and Martinelli's top notes still bring cheers from the men at the rail. In the old days singers were known to pay as high as $1,000 for an evening's "success." Now $25 will buy a fairly noisy ovation...
Sembrich did her flawless trills in Lucia di Lammermoor at the second performance given in the Metropolitan Opera House. (Downtown at the old Academy of Music Adelina Patti was singing.) Sembrich sang with Caruso when he made his U. S. debut in 1903. She was with the Metropolitan when it visited San Francisco at the time of the great fire. Caruso, who was shaken out of bed, would never sing in San Francisco again. Sembrich was frightened, too. But she stayed to give a concert, earned over $10,000 which she divided between the choristers and the orchestra players...
...Enrico Caruso was the tenor, Arturo Toscanini the conductor on that November night in 1908 when Giulio Gatti-Casazza mounted his first performance as manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. The opera was A'ida, chosen by Gatti out of reverence for his friend and hero, Composer Giuseppe Verdi. Lately Gatti has been accused of being old-fashioned and reactionary. But last week as he began his farewell season at the Metropolitan, the sphinxy Gatti behaved as if he had never heard the carping. Again for the opening night he chose...
First-nighters thought Gatti might break his rule last week, take a curtain call with the singers and the new conductor. But Gatti took his first and last bow from the Metropolitan stage in 1908, standing proudly between his friends Toscanini and Caruso...